15min:
ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENTS OF NEAR-INFRARED CO2 TRANSITION FREQUENCIES AT THE kHz-LEVEL.

DAVID A. LONG, GAR-WING TRUONG, JOSEPH T. HODGES, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA; AND CHARLES E. MILLER, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.

Measurements were made of Doppler broadened CO2 transitions in the (30013) longleftarrow (00001) band near 1.6 µm using frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS-CRDS). These absolute measurements were directly linked to a cesium atomic clock by the use of an octave-spanning, self-referenced optical frequency comb. Combined standard uncertainties as low as 18 kHz were achieved for these weak transitions. A global fit was then performed which included these measurements as well as an ensemble of absolute mid-infrared and far-infrared data. The resulting spectroscopic parameters provide secondary frequency standards over a wide spectral region and should benefit atmospheric remote sensing missions.